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gruff 音标拼音: [gr'ʌf] a. 粗鲁的,粗率的,板着脸孔的 粗鲁的,粗率的,板着脸孔的 gruff adj 1: brusque and surly and forbidding; " crusty remarks"; " a crusty old man"; " his curmudgeonly temper"; " gruff manner"; " a gruff reply" [ synonym: { crusty}, { curmudgeonly}, { gruff}, { ill- humored}, { ill- humoured}] 2: deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; " gruff voices"; " the dog' s gruff barking"; " hoarse cries"; " makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"- Virgil Thomson [ synonym: { gruff}, { hoarse}, { husky}] Gruff \ Gruff\ ( gr[ u^] f), a. [ Compar. { Gruffer} ( gr[ u^] f"[~ e] r); superl. { Gruffest}.] [ D. grof; akin to G. grob, OHG. gerob, grob, Dan. grov, Sw. grof, perh. akin to AS. rc[' o] fan to break, Z. reavc, rupture, g- standing for the AS. prefix ge-, Goth. ga-.] Of a rough or stern manner, voice, or countenance; sour; surly; severe; harsh. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] Gruff, disagreeable, sarcastic remarks. -- Thackeray. -- { Gruff" ly}, adv. -- { Gruff" ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 86 Moby Thesaurus words for " gruff": abrupt, acerb, acid, acrimonious, aggressive, bad- tempered, bearish, beastly, biting, bluff, blunt, boorish, brash, brassy, brazen, brusque, cantankerous, caustic, cavalier, choked, churlish, coarse, crabbed, crabby, cracked, croaking, croaky, cross, crotchety, crusty, curt, cutting, deep, dour, dry, fierce, grouchy, growling, grumbling, grumbly, grumpish, grumpy, guttural, harsh, harsh- sounding, hoarse, husky, ill- humored, ill- natured, irascible, irritable, low, metallic, morose, peevish, petulant, querulous, ragged, rasping, raucid, raucous, rough, roupy, rude, saturnine, severe, sharp, short, short- tempered, snippety, snippy, sour, squawking, squawky, stertorous, stinging, strangled, sulky, sullen, surly, testy, thick, throaty, tinny, truculent, uncivil
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